Sublimated

ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Produced by sublimation.

1605.  Timme, Quersit., II. v. 125. Then shal yee see the sublimated matter cleauing to the sides of the glasses.

1631.  [Mabbe], Celestina, I. 16. Shee made sublimated Mercury.

1800.  trans. Lagrange’s Chem., I. 180. Half a part of sublimated sulphur.

1816.  J. Smith, Panorama Sci. & Art, II. 296. Sublimated metallic oxides.

  † b.  Mixed or compounded with corrosive sublimate (or arsenic). Obs.

1611.  Cotgr., Sublimé … sublimated, or mixed with Arsenicke.

1631.  Massinger, Believe as You List, II. i. A sublimated pill of mercurie.

  2.  fig. a. Of persons and immaterial things: Exalted, elevated; raised to a high degree of purity or excellence; lofty, sublime.

1599.  Sandys, St. Relig. (1605), H 2 b. Of a more refined & sublimated temper, then that their country conceits can satisfie.

1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., iv. 266. In words, whose weight best sute a sublimated straine.

1654.  Owen, Saints’ Persev., vii. 171. These latter, more refined, sublimated mercuriall wits.

1708.  Brit. Apollo, No. 105. 1/1. The Refin’d, the Sublimated precepts of the Gospel.

a. 1763.  Shenstone, Economy, I. 122. Ye tow’ring minds! ye sublimated souls!

1812.  T. Jefferson, Writ. (1830), IV. 176. A sublimated impartiality, at which the world will laugh.

1823.  Lamb, Guy Faux, in Eliana (1867), 19. Swallowing the dregs of Loyola for the very quintessence of sublimated reason.

1876.  Miss Braddon, J. Haggard’s Dau., xiii. Is this love, or only a sublimated friendship?

1901.  R. Garnett, Ess., iii. 84. Poetry is neither exalted utility nor sublimated intellect.

  † b.  Puffed up, haughty. Obs.

1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 130. The Kings of Pegu [etc.] are so sublimated, that when an Ambassadour comes before them, they must doe it creeping.

  c.  Condensed, concentrated. rare.

1884.  Mary Gay Humphreys, in Harper’s Mag., Sept., 557/2. Paris is France, and Trouville a sublimated Paris.

  3.  Of physical things: Purified, refined, rarefied rare.

a. 1676.  Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., IV. ii. 297. The Æther, which is but a purer sublimated Air.

1860.  Maury, Phys. Geog., i. 9. The sublimated air, diffusing itself by its mobility.

1862.  Miss Braddon, Lady Audley, xix. A sublimated meat that could scarcely have grown upon any mundane sheep.